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Visite au Botanique de l’exposition « Where I find Myself » de Joël Meyerowitz.

20180114 Exposition J Meyerowitz

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A noter la période de transition entre N/B et couleur où il doublait, à l’aide d’un deuxième boitier ses photos, N/B par une version couleur avant d’abandonner définitivement le N/B.

Vous pouvez également trouver un compte-rendu de la visite de l’exposition par Hector Epelbaum, membre de mon club photo Viewfinders dans la newsletter de janvier 2018 du club.

JOEL MEYEROWITZ – WHERE I FIND MYSELF
Thursday 14.12.17 – Sunday 28.01.18
BOTANIQUE MUSEUM
This exhibition is created with the collaboration of the Galerie Polka.

Joel Meyerowitz (b. 1938) was born in New York City and began taking photographs in 1962. Although he has always seen himself as a street photographer in the tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank (he is the co-author of the standard work on the genre, Bystander: A History of Street Photography, 1994) he transformed the mode with his pioneering use of color.  As an early advocate of color photography (mid-60’s), Meyerowitz was instrumental in changing the attitude toward the use of color photography from one of resistance to nearly universal acceptance.

Meyerowitz’s  first book, Cape Light (1978), is a much beloved classic of color photography and has sold more than 150,000 copies. And in Wild Flowers (1983) he also demonstrated a comic appreciation for the blending of nature and artifice on ordinary city streets. He later turned his attention to portraits (Redheads, 1991), and landscape (Tuscany: Inside the Light, 2003). More recently, Meyerowitz has spent three years capturing wild areas in New York City’s parks. Selections from the project were exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York (2009-10), and they have been published in Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks (Aperture, 2009).

Meyerowitz  was the only photographer to be given unimpeded access to Ground Zero in the wake of 9/11. The images he captured have formed the foundation of a major national archive, and an exhibition of selected images has travelled to more than 200 cities in 60 countries.

Throughout his career, Meyerowitz  has since produced over a dozen books, and a full survey of his career was published by Phaidon in 2010. Additionally, in 1998 he produced and directed his first film, Pop, an intimate diary of a three-week road trip made with his son, Sasha, and his aging father, Hy.

Among Meyerowitz’s   first important exhibitions were those at Eastman House, Rochester, in 1966, and « My European Trip » at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1968. He represented the United States at the Venice Biennale for Architecture in 2002, and he has been the recipient of over a dozen awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis. His work can be found in many major public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Source : http://botanique.be/en/exposition/joel-meyerowitz-where-i-find-myself

Come Dawn to Us

La Galerie était consacrée à l’exposition « Come dawn to us » de la photographe Lara Gasparatto.
La scénographie était atypique sur certains murs et plutôt intéressante.

Avec « Come dawn to us », Lara Gasparotto nous invite à descendre dans l’aube, là où les premières lueurs chassent timidement les ombres, dérobent de lascifs instants et révèlent les restes crus de la nuit. Adoptant des formats réduits, l’artiste nous propose d’embrasser, sur la pointe des pieds, un monde de murmures et de confidences.